How To Import Raw Political Data For Crunching 34
Ed Pegg writes "For those that want to get their fingers stained red and blue with actual political data, resources beyond 538 and pollster can be accessed. In a blog item for Wolfram Research, Jeff Hamrick gives step by step details for how to import raw data from Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, and Quinnipiac. Then he uses Mathematica to analyze the political data." Related: Slashdot developer Pudge presented at OSCON in July his own approach to gathering Washington-state polling data for analysis [PDF].
Re:Not sure I would want his methods (Score:3, Interesting)
Knowing how your enemy processes his data, finding flaws in his analysis
Well, based on the same journal entries that I pointed out earlier, it would seem reasonable to expect that he just takes feeds straight from conservative news sources and then "analyzes" by posting it here on slashdot as well as on his own website.
I would say there isn't really any "raw data analysis" involved. At least if there is, he isn't posting it here.
Although of course reality does have a known liberal bias. So he may choose to simply ignore reality on that basis.